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Show 308 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS We heard the shooting, but thought the Millers were shooting at a rabbit or wolf and took no more notice of it. We finished our breakfast and all three started up to the mill after my team. When about half way up, we heard the rattle of a wagon, and in looking back we saw a man standing up on the wagon driving as fast as he could make the horses go. Tom Gledhill said, " That fellow is driving pretty fast up hill." I remarked, " he must have had one drink too many this morning." Just then the man shouted, ' i There is a man shot all to pieces below the house. ' We then knew what the shooting was we had heard and started back to the house as fast as we could run. We saw some horsemen south west of the house coming at full speed through the brush, and thought they were Indians trying to head us off from the house, where we had left our guns. When we reached the house we saw that the men were from Spring City. The Miller boy, when shot, tried to rm to the house, but the Indians headed him off. They had not yet reloaded. The boy turned and ran down the road toward Spring City and met these men going out to look for stock. They had received word that Indian rigns had been seen the previous cvevini? in the foot hills. Some of the men took the boy who was very weak from the loss of bloo<] to Spring City and sent a telegram to Mt. Pleasant. Col John L. Ivie gathered up a small posse with which he pursued the Indians, but never overtook them. Later Colonel Allred took young Miller home and kept him until he recovered. Brother Allred ' s wife at- |